Hammer



No Model.)

W. K. HOWES.

' HAMMER. No. 356,248. Patented Jan. 18,1887.

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM K. HOWES, OF STRONG, MAINE.

HAMMER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,248, dated January 18 1887.

Application filed April19,186. Serial 1:04am. N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM K. HowEs, of Strong, in the county of Franklin and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved Hammer Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side View of a hammer provided with my improved attachment; and Fig. 2 is a face view of the hammer, the nail being shown in position in both the figures.

I prefer to use my hammer attachment in connection with such a hammer as that illustrated in'the drawings above referred to-that is, with a hammer-head, 10, formed with sockv notch, 3, and carries a U-shaped clip, 4, said clip being riveted to the strip 2 by a rivet, 7, a spring, 5, being interposed between the clip and the main portion of the attachment. Below the point where the clip 4 and the strip 2 are united the strip 2 is bent outward to form the thumb-piece 6.

This attachment is secured to the handle 12 by means of pivot-screws 8, in position so that when not in use the spring 5 will force the strip 2 against the shank 11. When it is desired to drive a nail in position that would ordinarily be out of reach of the operator, the nail is placed, as shown in the drawings, with its head against the shank 11, the strip 2 at this time being thrown upward, and after the nail is in the position shown the strip is released so that its notch 3 will engage with the body of the nail, against which the strip will be braced by the spring 5, thus holding the nail in position. To drive the nail, the hammer is grasped and a sharp blow struck, the attachment being freed from engagement with the nail by a sharp jerk backward, thus leavin g the nail in position so that it may be driven to place.

Although I have described my attachment as being made of three main parts, it will, of course, be understood that the strip 2 and the clip 4 could be made of cast malleable iron or .of sheet-iron cut and bent to form, the spring in either case being riveted to the main portion of the attachment.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An attachment for hammers, comprising the strip 2, notched at its upper end, and provided or formed with the pivotal U-shaped clip 4, adapted to embrace and be pivoted to.

a hammer-handle, and a spring, 5, extending downward from the clip and tending to force the upper end of the strip inward, substantially as set forth.-

2. The combination, with the hammer, of the clip 4, pivoted to the handle thereof, and having a notched strip, 2, extending upward adjacent to the hammer-head, the spring 5, extending downward and bearing against the handle for forcing the upper end of strip 2 inward, and the thumb-piece 6 at the lower end of the strip, substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM K. HOWES.

Witnesses:

ALBERT DAGGETT, W. L. DAGGETT. 

